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Natural beirs

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

Heirs by consanguinity as distinguished from heirs by adoption, and also as distinguished from collateral heira.

Ludlum v. Otis, l5 Hun (N. Y.) 4i4; Smith v. Pendell, 19 Co.nn. H2, 48 Am. Dec. 146; Miller v. Churchill, 78 N. C. 372; Markover v. Krauss. 132 Ind. 294, 31 N. E. 1047, 17 L. R. A. 806.